伦敦展览:粗鲁的大不列颠

Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J.M.W. Turner.

Rude Britannia: 粗鲁的大不列颠

《粗鲁的大不列颠：英国漫画艺术》展日前正在伦敦泰特美术馆举行。该展览精选17世纪至今英国漫画艺术的历史片刻，呈现250多年来那些用夸张和喜剧手法描绘社会现象及政治人物的漫画作品。

William Hogarth: 威廉·豪格斯(漫画“鼻祖”)

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

Margaret Thatcher：撒切尔(很熟悉了)

British stateswoman; first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in 1925)

Absurd： 荒谬（展览的一个部分）

the Rude Britannia Exhibition is divided into six sections, including British Comic Art; Social Satire and the Grotesque; Politics; The Bawdy; The Worship of Bacchus and The Absurd.  So the "Absurd " is one section of the exhibition. The Absurd shows the wide variety of absurd comic art through objects that fit this description; art showing the humanisation of inanimate objects and animals, or involving strange or apparently useless items.

Curators：(博物馆、展览馆等的) 馆长, 主持

one who has the care and superintendence of something especially :one in charge of a museum, zoo, or other place of exhibit.

Gerald Scarfe: 杰拉德·斯卡夫（政治漫画家） Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI, (born 1 June 1936 in St John's Wood, London) is an English cartoonist and illustrator.  More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Scarfe

Harry Hill：哈里希尔 （英国喜剧演员、作家和电视主持人）

Harry Hill (born Matthew Keith Hall 1 October 1964), is an English comedian, author and television presenter. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hill

Viz：英国非常流行的喜剧杂志

Viz is a popular British comic magazine which has been running since 1979. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz_(comic)

Carry On：继续（长篇电视剧集）

"Carry On" is a long-running series of low-budget British comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_(film_series)

Gillray： 詹姆斯·雅瑞（英国著名漫画家）

James Gillray, sometimes spelled Gilray (13 August 1757 – 1 June 1815), was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillray

Tyranny: 暴君

the government of an absolute ruler;  2. oppressive government; unjust government;  3. cruel and unjust use of authority; harshness; severity; despotism

Napoleon：拿破仑（大家都很熟悉）

Bust：n. 半身像, 胸部, 萧条, 破产 v. 打碎

1:a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast2:the upper part of the human torso between neck and waist especially :the breasts of a woman

Feature：n.特征[ pl.]相貌；特写；故事片 vt.突出

transitive verb1chiefly dialect:to resemble in features2:to picture or portray in the mind :IMAGINE3 a:to give special prominence to <the exhibit features local artists> b :to have as a characteristic or feature <a menu featuring many options>intransitive verb:to play an important part

Deface： vt. 损伤 ... 的外观, 损害, 磨损, 涂销

1:to mar the appearance of :injure by effacing significant details <deface an inscription>2:IMPAIR

Fang：n.(毒蛇的)尖牙 a long sharp tooth

Pterodactyl：翼指龙

any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition broadly :PTEROSAUR

Cameron：大卫卡梅伦

David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, and Leader of the Conservative Party. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney. MORE AT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron

Bullingdon: 布灵顿俱乐部

The Bullingdon Club is a socially exclusive student dining club at Oxford University, without any permanent rooms, infamous for its members' wealth and destructive binges. Membership is by invitation only, and prohibitively expensive for most, given the need to pay for the uniform, dinners and damages.

Old Etonian: 老伊顿人

Past pupils of Eton College are known as Old Etonians. 

a picture paints a thousand words: 一图胜千言